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6.
Rationale
• Any reuse/repurposing/recycling (RRR) of
materials
• keeps it out of landfills
• limits loss of value and value-added
attributes of the materials
• Encouraging this is reCycld's most obvious
purpose.

16.
Development
• Context analysis revealed a need for strong
community-supported infrastructure.
• The intent is for reCycled to be
self-maintaining and community-driven.
• Proprietary and non-libre solutions are
incompatible with this aim.

18.
Implementation
• Ideally, design decisions alone would dictate
technological infrastructure.
• However,
• This project needed to be implemented in a
short time frame
• The result must be entirely community
supportable
• Rules out custom-coded portal infrastructure

19.
Implementation
• Best approach: adapt a mature,
community-supported CMS framework.
• WordPress-MU
• Multiple-user version of WordPress platform
• Designed to host several blogs under one
domain/install
• Requires expansion and modification

20.
Implementation
• WordPress-MU adaptation
• Using a variety of plugins and extensions
• Many have been significantly modified for
use here
• All have good community support
• No Flash®
• Flash®
<> libre

21.
Implementation
• “Socialization”
• Platform was adapted to a
community-oriented social-blogging site

26.
Implementation
• Themes
• The reCycld experience is defined as having
a central entry point from which the users can
explore and discover community content.
• Both the central entry point and member sites
are based on a blogging paradigm.

27.
Implementation
• Themes
• Needs:
•Distinguish between central entry point and
member sites
•Family resemblance between central entry
point and member sites
•Lightweight for low-bandwidth connections
• Themes adapted from community-supported
Blass9

29.
Looking forward
• Hosting
• Host must be willing to offer large and
scalable storage (~1 GB per 100 members)
• Able to provide full domain hosting, a
complete AMP stack, and SMTP services.
• Development hosting at
http://mkonar.selfip.com/recycld